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Transit · 2016

Kepler-725 b

This world receives 12.1× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 39.6 days; the light you see left it 2.47 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.96 × Jupiter 
A year
39.6 days0.224 AU
Temperature
241 °C514 K

About this world

Kepler-725 b is a gas giant orbiting Kepler-725, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G) 2.47 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.96 times the size of Jupiter and holds 2.1 Jupiter masses. It completes an orbit every 39.6 days at 0.22 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.23).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 514 K (241 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-725 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-725 c.

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